Obituaries

He was a recipient of the FAA Distinguished Career Service Award.

Edward Lee Jett was a Baltimore native and a 1941 graduate of the University of Baltimore law school.

During World War II, he served as an Army Air Forces test pilot. He participated in the development of the assault glider used in the Normandy invasion and was among the first certified helicopter pilots in his military branch. He retired from the Air Force Reserves in 1977 as a lieutenant colonel.

After his FAA retirement, Mr. Jett was a consultant to the International Civil Aviation Organization and briefly worked as a real estate agent.

He was a member of Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington and attended Providence-Fort Washington United Methodist Church. His hobbies included tennis, boating and gardening.

His first wife, Nina Lee Jett, whom he married in 1943, died in 1955.

Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Hildegard Geyer Jett of Fort Washington; a son from his first marriage, Lee D. Jett of Falls Church; a son from his second marriage, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas W. Jett of Yorktown, Va.; two sisters, Downing Kay of Towson, Md., and Lillian Stevens of Lovettsville; and four grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Dr. Karen Hanula RosenTherapist, Professor

Dr. Karen Hanula Rosen, 62, a therapist and former professor of marriage and family therapy at Virginia Tech University's Falls Church campus, died April 29 of brain cancer at her home in Clifton.

Dr. Rosen was born in Vineland, N.J., and received an undergraduate degree in education from Radford University in 1968. After teaching for several years at Francis T. Maloney High School in Meriden, Conn., where she also founded the girls' basketball and track teams, she took a teaching hiatus to raise two sons.